My point was really how there was little to no verification on SMTP servers back then and that you could send mail with a simple terminal program, or, more practically, a script.
Not hacking, but using knowledge of the insecurity of SMTP servers of the time, to allow spoofing easy spoofing.
Not so easy to find SMTP servers to do that with now.
Not really hacking, but in the 90s you could usually just connect to a mail server and it would believe what you told it.
If you were careful you could just type an email directly: MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, etc.
I would write scripts at work to send spoof emails sometimes, you could put anything as the FROM address, like “info @ catfacts” or whatever.
Another “not really hacking” example is that when some companies first got an Internet connection, they would just allocate public IP addresses to everyone, no gateway or firewall. So you could browse any non-passworded smb shares just knowing the IP.
Black Mirror - Metalhead.
I heard of it from this video
It’s just one of several tells. Although you can’t really rely on anything. Just like “badly-drawn hands” is less likely to show up now.
Once I heard this, I had to learn how to type them, btw!
Maybe “we shall meet in the place where there is no darkness” was referring to a 24-hour Walmart.
The “auto” in autofrefactor is because it’s the automatic test. It’s the “Look at the farmhouse/balloon” test.
There are several videos about how it works, but if you want to waste some time, this one is about where the image comes from
I’ve run small models (a few Gb in size) on my steam deck. It gives reasonably fast responses (faster than a person would type).
I know that they’re far from state-of-the art, but they do work and I know that the Steam Deck is not going to be using much power.
Does he die on camera though?
Probably best to stop letting the pig in the bed, too.
Occasionally, all that squealing can come in handy, like the early morning hours of 16 January 1994, when the Northridge earthquake shook most of Los Angeles, prompting shortlived but very real fears that the Big One had struck.
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Max was in bed with me and woke up minutes before it happened. And I was yelling at him for waking me up, when everything just exploded. So, I’m naked with Max, and running … because I’m in a house on a hill, and if it’s going down I want to be up on the street, dodging the next house.
August 29 1997, the day pajamas became self-aware.
Actually it’s a thing schools do (in the US, at least), like casual day except that the kids wear pajamas to school.
I just thought that as the ultimate authority on memes, he might take more of an interest.
I’m beginning to think that Richard Dawkins doesn’t even bother moderating this community…
My first thought was that it was a Westworld reference.
I see I misunderstood how you mean this to work, that routing would handle sending data only to subscribers. I was imagining that it mean a simple LAN broadcast using a packet with the subnet bits all set (e.g. 192.168.255.255). I think that it’s more analogous to a mailing list distribution, but for general data/streams?
But your earlier example of downloading the cat video still fails unless many people request the video at the same time (otherwise you’re multicasting to one). What happens if I watch the video on my phone while out, then watch it again on my laptop at home? It will still need sending twice.
Wouldn’t a more efficient approach just be to have something like ipfs with lots of local caching?
I don’t see how that would work. So all my friends video streams, for instance, would be streaming data to all my devices as they are broadcast.
But my laptop is currently asleep. It wouldn’t receive anything.
How do you solve that without storing the video on a server that I can pull from on demand?
Even for my devices that are on, they’d have to store everything as it was broadcast.
And the streams (including every other broadcast) would constantly be eating up my bandwidth.
How would I not receive streams that I’m not interested in? What would decide which broadcast packets do or don’t get sent to my router?
One of the terrible things is that they will bill you much more if you don’t have insurance, or if you have insurance but they are not in your insurance “network” (which is basically your insurer acting like a union to negotiate prices down for it’s members).
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“Cat Lassy will save me!” https://youtu.be/_Q2s8AJbsps
Via Tom Scott’s newsletter, an explanation of a strange ngrams anomaly in an xkcd. Why is the 11th of all months apparently the least popular date?
I’ve used bookshop.org which sells ebooks and has a reader, but you can nominate a local bookstore to get part of the profit.